18th Amendment and its Impacts on Pakistan’s Politics

Musarrat, Razia; Ali, Ghulam Muhammad; Azhar, Muhammad Salman

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“…Major constitutional reforms such as the 18th Amendment increased the political leverage of civilian leadership. 46 An Downloaded by [Rutgers University] at 10:02 05 April 2015 emerging broad consensus among mainstream and regional political parties on consolidating democracy and improving regional ties as well as the influence of vocal peace lobbies in both countries have been additional factors facilitating the implementation of Sharif's peace agenda with India. 47 Yet, as the outcome of the late 2014 political turmoil in Pakistan suggests, the military's challenge to civilian assertion in core foreign policy subjects, especially India policy, is far from over, even amid changed socio-political realities of the country.…”

Section: Democratic Consolidation and Its Discontentsmentioning

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Breaking the Equilibrium? New Leaders and Old Structures in the India-Pakistan Rivalry

Ahmad¹,

Ebert²

2015

Asian Affairs: An American Review

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Section: Democratic Consolidation and Its Discontentsmentioning

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Breaking the Equilibrium? New Leaders and Old Structures in the India-Pakistan Rivalry

Ahmad¹,

Ebert²

2015

Asian Affairs: An American Review

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“…Because of debt servicing, other crucial economic sectors of the country have been totally sidelined. Also, after the 18th Constitutional Amendment in Pakistan passed in 2010, devolution of powers from federal to provincial governments occurred along with greater provincial autonomy (Adeney, 2012;Musarrat et al, 2012;Rana, 2020). With major portions of budget now being allocated to provinces, the Pakistani central government has been left with a budget shortfall, in turn forcing it to take further loans.…”

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China’s Debt Trap in Pakistan? A Case Study of the CPEC Project

Shaikh

Chen

2021

South Asia Research

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Existing literature on China–Pakistan trade relations mainly deals with potential opportunities for Chinese investment, while no study has so far specifically analysed Chinese investment in light of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project by taking into account how Pakistan’s domestic factors shape foreign trade relations. This article argues that the weak economic indicators of Pakistan reveal a possibility of defaulting on debt repayments, as Chinese loans have relatively high-interest rates. Through a two-level analytical framework, this article demonstrates that, despite concerns about Chinese debt traps at the international level, the CPEC project is still largely intact due to strong domestic support of the Pakistani establishment. Further, the geostrategic importance of Pakistan for China is higher than merely trade relations. It is thus also not in the interest of China to see its investments in Pakistan become a debt trap, though the institutional arrangements in Pakistan are prone to mounting debts.

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“…From the emergence of an administrative state in 1948 and the reorganisation of the civil service structure in 1973 to the army-bureaucracy nexus of the early 1980s, the public sector has been under the influence of ruling elites (Islam 1989). While the Act supporting the devolution of power was passed in 2010, there remains a greater degree of centralization in public-sector leadership, decision-making and policy development (Musarrat et al 2012) We posit that studying policy alienation dimensions against the backdrop of Pakistani public sector organisations is worthwhile, as it highlights the precarious position of public professionals in carrying out public policy development and service delivery. The policymaking 20 and implementation processes in Pakistan have also been affected by the uptake of NPM and ICT (Asif and Dawood 2017;Mujahid 2002).…”

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Policy Alienation and Street-level Bureaucrats’ Psychological Wellbeing: The Mediating Role of Alienative Commitment

Usman

Ali

Mughal

et al. 2020

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

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In an era of New Public Management reforms, public sector policies often create a mismatch between social and economic values that can lead to public policy alienation – professionals’ feelings of disconnection from public policies. Policy alienation can create unrest among public professionals and carry several negative repercussions for their wellbeing and work-related attitudes. The negative repercussions of policy alienation are likely to inhibit public service delivery. However, existing research on policy alienation and its consequences for street-level bureaucrats’ wellbeing is scarce. Thus, it is unknown how policymakers can curb policy disconnect and counter its negative implications. To contribute to both general policy alienation theory and practice, our study hypothesized that the two dimensions of general policy meaninglessness – client meaninglessness and societal meaninglessness –are negatively related to street-level bureaucrats’ psychological wellbeing. We hypothesize this negative relationship is due to alienative commitment. A time-lagged survey data collected from 401 public professionals and analyzed using structural equation modelling supported our hypothesized relationships. The present study extends the nomological networks of the antecedents and consequences of alienative commitment and offers important implications that can help policymakers to counter the issues related to public professionals’ alienative commitment and psychological wellbeing.

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18th Amendment and its Impacts on Pakistan’s Politics

Abstract: This study discusses the potential impacts of 18 th amendment created in Pakistan's law on political and social conditions of Pakistan. With the help of previous researches author proves that 18 th amendment enhances the role of Parliament and it acts as a hurdle for dictatorship.

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Breaking the Equilibrium? New Leaders and Old Structures in the India-Pakistan Rivalry

Breaking the Equilibrium? New Leaders and Old Structures in the India-Pakistan Rivalry

China’s Debt Trap in Pakistan? A Case Study of the CPEC Project

Policy Alienation and Street-level Bureaucrats’ Psychological Wellbeing: The Mediating Role of Alienative Commitment

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